The Lotus Flower fiber and sustainable luxury.- Flax: Sustainability is the New Luxury.- Great potential of stinging Nettle for sustainable textile and fashion.- Sustainable Luxury Natural Fibers –Production, Properties and Prospects.- Sustainable processing of luxury textiles.- Sustainability in luxury textile applications: a contradiction or a new business opportunity?.- Specialty Chemical Finishes for Sustainable Luxurious Textiles.- Book Chapter for Handbook of Sustainable luxury textiles and Fashion- Vol 1.
Miguel Angel Gardetti Ph.D. He has been the head of the Center for
Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in
2002, and he also holds the same position at the Center for Study
of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master’s
programs both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training
within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to
CEOs and Corporate Managers both from domestic and multinational
companies in Argentina and Latin America.
As to Luxury and Sustainability topics, he lectured at the IE
Business School (Madrid, Spain), one of the top Business Schools in
Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker in Identidad Uruguay, an event
organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a
lecture on Fashion, Luxury, and Sustainability. He was the creator
of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America
Award (at present evolving towards the IE Award for Sustainability
in The Premium and Luxury Sectors at a global level). He developed
also several publications in the area of sustainable luxury: the
Journal of Corporate Citizenship special issue on “sustainable
luxury” and the books titled “Sustainable Luxury – Managing Social
and Environmental Performance in Iconic Brands” and “Sustainable
Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship – Stories from the
Pioneers”.
He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting
Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board
of the ArgentineChapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive
terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina,
and he was also part of the task force that developed the
“Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations
Global Compact. He has also coordinated tasks for the
Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance
Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands
Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the
World Resources Institute (USA.)
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